Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
As with all casino games, blackjack
As with all casino games, blackjack ncorporates a "house edge", a statistical advantage for the casino that is built into the game. The advantage of the dealer's position in blackjack relative to the holdem player comes from the fact that if the player busts, the holdem player loses, regardless of whether the dealer subsequently busts. Nonetheless, blackjack online players using basic strategy will lose less than 1% of their total wagered amount with strictly average luck; this is very favorable to the holdem player compared to other casino games. The loss rate of online players who deviate from basic strategy through ignorance is generally expected to be greater.
Dealer hits soft 17
Dealer hits soft 17 A "soft 17" in blackjack. An ace and any combination of 6.Each game has a rule about whether the dealer must hit or stand on soft 17, which is generally printed on the table surface. The variation where the dealer must hit soft 17 is abbreviated "H17" in blackjack literature, with "S17" used for the stand-on-soft-17 variation. Substituting an "H17" rule with an "S17" rule in a game benefits the holdem player, decreasing the house edge by about 0.2%.